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having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
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The Son Is Superior to Angels
For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”?
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And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”
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Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire.”
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But to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?
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Are not all angels spirits in the divine service, sent to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
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For if the message declared through angels was valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty,
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Exaltation through Abasement
Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels.
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You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor,
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but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
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For it is clear that he did not come to help angels, but the descendants of Abraham.
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But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
